Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | I 1038 | |
Title: | CHRISTIAN GRAVESTONE | |
Category Code: | I | |
Object Number: | 1038 | |
Description: | Rectangular thick slab, cut from an earlier block or slab, back of which worked with claw chisel, top, where original preserved, worked smooth. Front of top and remaining edges irregularly broken but possibly are "finished" for reuse as grave inscription. Round pin hole in top edge set in 00.105 from lt. edge, 0.028 from back, D00.002. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Greek inscription on face, three lines, letters carved in champleve, i.e., background cut back leaving letters in relief, letter H00.03-00.055: Cross (w. rho) | |
Material: | Fine gray marble or possibly Acrocorinth limestone. | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete, although only part of upper edge finished; remaining edges uneven; part of surface broken away at lower lt. corner. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.261 W00.34 T00.053 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman or Early Byzantine | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 P169 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth VIII.3 N563; Corinth 14 P167 N35Salonica Exhibit, 2001 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2879 Image: bw 2001 020 20 Basket: NB122 P169 Notebook Page: NB 122, spread 89 (pp. 168 - 169) |